Great Eunuch of the Ming Dynasty

I saw thick black smoke coming out of the three clay blast furnaces, and a group of craftsmen beside them were adding coal into the coal hole with shovel by shovel. With the addition of coal, the temperature in the furnace became even higher. .

Soon the molten iron flowed out from the discharge port, and the craftsman guided the molten iron and poured it into the pre-prepared mold, waiting for cooling to forge the finished product.

Seeing this scene, Wang Zhen nodded secretly.

"Bring Master Wen here." Wang Zhen instructed Hou Bailing.

"Of course, I'm going to find Master Wen right now." After finishing speaking, Hou Bailing winked at Wang Zhen.

Wang Zhen got goosebumps all over his body from this look, and Luo Cheng who was beside him watched Hou Bailing's back twisting his waist, and secretly swallowed his saliva.

Hearing the sound of swallowing saliva, Wang Zhen subconsciously moved his steps to keep himself a little further away from Luo Cheng.

Eunuchs are perverts!Wang Zhen defined a eunuch in his heart.

After a while, Hou Bailing led a stubble-faced middle-aged man over.The middle-aged man bowed to Wang Zhen, and said, "Wen Junjun has seen Mr. Wang."

"Master Wen is free of courtesy. This town has learned that Master Wen is the most skilled fire forging master in the border army of Datong Town. He is at the level of a master. Is what this town said right?" Wang Zhen looked into Wen Junjun's eyes , asked intently.

Wen Junjun looked into Wang Zhen's eyes, only felt a pinprick in his eyeballs coming from his eyes, he immediately lowered his head, and said: "That's just others' high regard and small ones, and small craftsmanship It can only be said to be average, but in this area of ​​Datong Town, I dare say that there is no one who is better at building fire systems than Xiao."

"Okay! What this town wants is your words! What do you think of this picture?" Said, Wang Zhen carefully took out a blueprint from his arms.

Seeing Wang Zhen take out the blueprint so carefully, Wen Junjun immediately took it with both hands, fearing that the paper would be ruined, he opened the blueprint lightly.

"Surround ten meters around Master Wen. If anyone peeks at the drawings without authorization, cut them off!" As soon as Wang Zhen finished speaking, all the eunuchs immediately drew their swords and surrounded Wen Junjun.

Seeing this posture, Wen Junjun became even more curious about the content of the drawings.With anticipation, Wen Junjun's eyes fell on the blueprint.

"Hiss~" Wen Junjun took a deep breath, the content on this blueprint was really shocking, and it directly overturned Wen Junjun's previous understanding of the fire system.

"It's so complicated, so profound! Where is the medicine gate? Where do you insert the matchlock? I can't understand it at all!" Wen Junjun's words made Wang Zhen's hope drop from heaven to hell.

"Then this town will teach you. You must listen carefully. This town will only tell you once." Wang Zhen exhaled a long breath and said calmly.

"Master, please be respected by apprentice Wen Junjun!" In this era, the craftsmanship is very confidential, and generally it is not only passed on to the son but not to the daughter, even if it is passed on to the son, it must be passed on to the favorite son. If it is given to an apprentice, it will be even more important. The apprentice will regard the master as a place closer than his own father. Many craftsmen are even sent to the elderly by their apprentices in the end.

"This is a new type of fire system invented by me, but I like to call it a musket, because you can see in front of it, there is a long bayonet. This bayonet is usually carried on the body as a dagger, and it can also be inserted into the front of the musket barrel. Buckle it up, this long musket will be longer, if there is no time to reload the ammunition, it can be used as a spear gun. It is no worse than a long-haired gun for stab wounds." Wang Zhen pointed to the bayonet pattern on the blueprint Said.

"Aww! Master is really a genius! Please continue to explain, master." Wen Junjun said with admiration.

Looking at Wen Junjun's appearance, Wang Zhen still felt quite a sense of accomplishment in his heart. Wang Zhen had joined the gun club at the beginning. Although they were all imitation toy guns, their structure was the same. Later, the club was directly reported by enthusiastic people. Uncle directly took away this den that manufactures and sells firearms.

Because Wang Zhen was a member of the club who did not charge money, he was only released after being detained for seven days. Later, he found out that the reason why he was reported was that a member of the club beat a parrot kept in a cage by others with a fake gun. died.In a fit of anger, he reported the club, and other members of the club asked him why he hit the parrot. His answer turned out to be that he could only aim at the bird in the cage, because all the [-]x mirrors on the market were bought by chicken eaters.

Wang Zhen carefully explained to Wen Junjun the knowledge of the firearms on the drawing, which made Wen Junjun burst into admiration.

"Master, you are amazing!"

"Master, you are awesome!"

Chapter 30 Lack of Money

Chapter 30 Lack of Money

The prototype of this gun is the 88-style rifle made in Hanyang, but it looks like it has been modified. The loading capacity has been increased from five rounds to ten rounds, and the problem of jamming the bolt has been optimized, which has solved many disadvantages.

Every part and mold is introduced in detail on the drawings.As long as it goes on an assembly line, a gun can be produced.

"Master, how do you get the mold for this gun barrel? If the size and density are not enough, it will easily explode and fail to assemble!" Wen Junjun is worthy of being a master weapon master, and he can see hidden dangers at a glance.

"You don't need to worry about this. The town asked Ding Qianhu of Jinyiwei to get a batch of Huotong gun barrel processing lathes from Shenjiying. Are you afraid that you won’t be able to make a good gun barrel?” Wang Zhen said, pointing his finger at three clay blast furnaces not far away that were emitting black smoke.

"Master is really wise, and I admire him very much." Wen Junjun immediately bowed to the ground.

"You go and call all your apprentices, and arrange for them to learn the forging process of a certain part, but don't let them all learn it." Wang Zhen ordered: "The molds for other parts should be made early, and the quartz molds on the drawing will be burnt. The manufacturing method is also clearly written, let’s go down and do it! The lathe will probably be delivered in the afternoon.”

"I would like to follow Master's instruction!" Wen Junjun agreed with eagerness and excitement, and went to arrange it.

At this time, the molten iron that came out had cooled down. Wang Zhen stepped forward to pick up a piece of iron, squeezed it hard, and immediately made a shallow handprint.

"Yes, the quality is still very high. When making semi-finished products, you only need to add carbon in proportion." Wang Zhen nodded in satisfaction.

In the wilderness not far from the mine, a thousand gendarmerie members were driving bullock carts towards the mine, and a dozen eunuchs rode horses to open the way ahead, shouting incessantly: "Brothers, work harder, when we reach the mine You can eat meat when you arrive! The chief town said that you can eat meat if you can arrive at noon, and you can only eat soup when you arrive in the afternoon!"

Hearing this, the ten gendarmerie captains loudly encouraged their gendarmerie members, trying to reach the mine earlier so that they could have a rest and eat the meat that the young eunuch said.

The gendarmerie members did not disappoint the eunuchs, and arrived at the mine just before lunch.

As soon as Wang Zhen heard the report, he hurriedly asked Wen Junjun to send someone to take over these lathes, and asked Luocheng to arrange a stove for extra meals for the gendarmerie members.

After getting the news from the stove, more than a dozen big fat pigs were killed, and they began to work in full swing.

Under the command of the foreman, the miners carried the lathe and installed it in the pre-prepared simple processing workshop. Wen Junjun summoned the apprentices and instructed the apprentices to correct the position of the lathe and assign the division of labor to each apprentice. Make arrangements in advance.

Everything was developing in an orderly manner according to Wang Zhen's expectation. Thirteen came to Wang Zhen, cupped his fists and said: "Qi reported to the general town, the lathe has been escorted here, Ding Yuyu and Ding Baihu from Jinyiwei said that Ding didn't understand Ding recently. Qianhu didn't have time to come over, saying that he found some interesting things, Ding Baihu didn't say what it was, and his subordinates didn't ask in detail, but the subordinates thought they still needed to send someone to pay attention."

When Wang Zhen heard this, there was an evil smile on the corner of his mouth, he nodded and said: "This town already knows about this matter, and you have been busy for a long time, so you can go down and eat."

"Yes, that subordinate is resigning." Thirteen agreed and withdrew.

The molten iron from the three soil blast furnaces has already come out, and new iron ore continues to be added into it. The combination of iron ore and coal, and the thick black smoke generated by full combustion add a bit of darkness to the mine.

"This pollution is really serious. If it is in later generations, it will definitely be a fire in the morning and a detention center in the afternoon." Wang Zhen laughed.

In addition to operating the salt industry and restaurants, Wang Zhen felt that he needed to find other ways to collect money for the initial construction of the base camp. After all, the consumption of scientific research funds is huge, and these 1000 mouths consume a lot of meat every day. It's strange to eat yourself up.

Jin Yiwei, who Ding didn't understand, willfully withdrew part of the funds from his small treasury. If the funds are insufficient at that time, the Jin Yiwei system will not be unreasonable to say that it is a pick.

Thinking of this, Wang Zhen found Xiao Fazi and asked him to send Hou Xining to the brothel in Datong Mansion to buy shares.

Hou Xining didn't understand, so he came to ask, and said: "This subordinate has seen Zongzhen, but I don't know what Zongzhen means, and I'm dull, please ask Zongzhen to explain it to me."

"You go to the Jinyiwei Thousand Households of Datong Mansion to find Ding I don't understand, and then ask him to send someone to cooperate with you to collect all the theaters in the entire city of Datong Prefecture, and tell those businessmen or backgrounds who opened the theaters that I will support them in the future. No one dares to collect the protection fee, otherwise they will have a place in the prison, and the general town government will take half of the shares of each family in the future. If you don't want to get involved, you don't have to force it, just close the door the next day." Wang Zhen said There is no way to set the goal of collecting money on these gray incomes. If you touch the business on the white road, you don’t know who you will offend. If you intervene in the gray income, the official bosses can’t say What, lest I tarnish my good reputation.

It is really because in this era, the role of fame is unimaginably powerful.

"There are also casinos and the market for buying and selling servants. These sales can't be ignored. The town is short of money now, very short of money!" Wang Zhen didn't feel ashamed, and told Hou Xining directly about his state, which made Hou Xining feel sad. I can't help but feel that the burden on my shoulders is very heavy.

"This subordinate will definitely get things done, please rest assured!" Hou Xining said with determination.

It has to be said that this guy who may sell his master for glory in the future was also a good young man with ideals and aspirations when he was young, and maybe he can save it now.Wang Zhen thought to himself.

In the final analysis, Wang Zhenzhi was a poor guy in the last life, and he didn't have a strong mental quality. This is the sorrow and shortcoming of a small person. If it were just a random hero who knew that someone had a different heart in the future, he would probably kill the hidden danger in the first place. In the bud.

Hou Bailing followed Wang Zhen to the residence, and someone had already put the gendarmerie list on the table.Wang Zhen picked it up and looked at the names and characteristics of the ten gendarmerie captains, and couldn't help feeling a bad taste in his heart.

Because the names of these ten gendarmerie captains are so distinctive, your name is Xiao Yan, his name is Zhitong, which reduces inflammation and relieves pain, and I call it Huoxuehuayu!